The Covid-19 tally in India on Tuesday mounted to 4,40,215 while the death toll rose to 14,011. The country recorded 14,933 fresh cases and 312 fatalities in the last 24 hours.
The number of people testing positive for Covid-19 as a proportion of those tested which is called India’s positivity rate has been on the rise for the past four weeks. It increased from 5.37% in the week ended May 24 to 7.74% in the week ended June 21.
Meanwhile, the number of people infected with the coronavirus disease topped nine million across the globe with the United States continuing to be the hardest hit with 2,310,798 confirmed cases, according to Johns Hopkins University tally. The global toll from the infection has gone up to 4,71,554.
The rise in confirmed cases today is lower than the highest spike of 15 thousand plus cases registered on Sunday.
The count includes 1,78,014 active cases, and 2,48,190 cured/discharged/migrated patients.
Maharashtra with 1,35,796 confirmed cases remains the worst-affected by the infection so far in the country. The state’s count includes 61,807 active, 67,706 cured, discharged patients while 6,283 deaths have been reported due to the infection so far.
The national capital’s confirmed coronavirus cases reached 62,655.
2,233 deaths have been reported in Delhi due to the infection so far.
Tamil Nadu has reported 62,087 cases so far with toll increased to 794.
As cases continue to surge, the World Health Organization has called for a rapid scaling up of production of the steroid dexamethasone, after British clinical trials found it had life-saving potential for critically-ill coronavirus patients.
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